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Does anyone actually KNOW any JD/MBAs?
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Date: April 21st, 2015 9:08 PM Author: Mauve resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27733413) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 9:48 PM Author: Bespoke Double Fault i know this guy too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27733699) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2015 12:42 PM Author: fragrant ebony mental disorder school cafeteria Friend from law school. Funny, easygoing dude. Worked at an ID firm he didn't like too much, then moved to another firm. Eventually got MBA and went in-house at a bank, although I'm not sure whether he got an in-house position before getting the MBA or not. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27736988) |
Date: April 21st, 2015 9:11 PM Author: provocative twisted cuck Biglaw, dead, dead, consulting, dead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27733428) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 9:11 PM Author: chest-beating depressive personal credit line In-house corp here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27733430) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 9:38 PM Author: Mauve resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27733606) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 9:56 PM Author: chest-beating depressive personal credit line I think it's superfluous. If you want to do MBB, do a top MBA. I actually did my MBA and got into advertising and then did law school because start-ups were still hot and I had some family cash to blow on school.
In hindsight, I should have just run with the MBA and spent the time on my career, but had no idea that 2008 would happen. |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 10:32 PM Author: Mauve resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27734136) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 10:35 PM Author: chest-beating depressive personal credit line Yeah, I just think I wasted 3 years getting a JD when I could have had an equally successful career just grinding it out with the MBA.
I'm not complaining, as so much saying the extra effort, time and money weren't worth the payout.
I didn't do a combined JD/MBA. |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 9:14 PM Author: Free-loading voyeur useless brakes The one I can think of off the top of my head is working for a startup. Did mid-law for a while. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27733446) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 9:15 PM Author: Free-loading voyeur useless brakes Actually -- I can think of another that did in-house for a few years, and is not also with a startup that he founded. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27733449) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 9:15 PM Author: Slimy Lascivious Macaca Stead private equity wgwig. Worked IBD and PE before law school. He was a smart and good-natured dude. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27733452) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 11:53 PM Author: floppy jap how hot is the wg? any pics? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27734623) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2015 10:05 AM Author: floppy jap bump (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27736140) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 9:15 PM Author: bat-shit-crazy school Me. Real estate dev. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27733454) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 9:36 PM Author: Mauve resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27733589) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 10:14 PM Author: Mauve resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27733940) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 11:54 PM Author: fishy brunch indirect expression Pls do.
I have a dear friend who's considering taking $80,000+ in loans to do the MSRED at Columbia. I keep telling him JUST DO THE THREE-YEAR JD-MBA BRO. |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 11:59 PM Author: Mauve resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27734651) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2015 12:04 AM Author: fishy brunch indirect expression But what the fuck is an MSRED, and will it actually help you break into RED?
My friend is a working-class BG URM with excellent grades and test scores, and would rather do the one-year specialized master's over the traditional MBA. It's nauseating. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2015 12:16 AM Author: Mauve resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27734784) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2015 12:25 AM Author: fishy brunch indirect expression Background. Dunno why I capitalized it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27734825) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2015 12:30 AM Author: Mauve resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27734845) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2015 12:40 PM Author: Mauve resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27736981) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 9:17 PM Author: sexy chocolate property genital piercing the most recent one i met is senior manager-about-to-be-partner at big 4. said she did one year at biglaw and was like fuck dis nigga shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27733467) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 10:17 PM Author: Stimulating fighting institution laser beams i'm friends with 2 jd/mba's at my school. one is going to a V5 firm and the other is going to blackstone for restructuring. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27733980) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 10:47 PM Author: transparent regret Met a Harvard JD/MBA a few months ago. Never practiced law, was hugely successful in finance, richest guy I've ever met. Mildly psychopathic, but seemed like a fairly happy guy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27734253) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 10:49 PM Author: Arousing principal's office dysfunction Know several pretty well. All were Finance -> JD/MBA -> Finance. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27734270) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 10:55 PM Author: Heady sienna prole shrine one works in corporate at a v5
one works in litigation at a v5
one is at a startup in a legal role
one is at a startup in a non legal role
three are in "buyside" finance
edit: one is in restructuring at a bank
one basically doesn't work |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 11:13 PM Author: Mauve resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27734433) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 10:56 PM Author: galvanic abode yes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27734342) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 11:05 PM Author: sadistic dark ticket booth I know one. He started out in a midsize firm and was an ADA in the Bronx or Queens for like 4 years and is now a solo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27734394) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 11:07 PM Author: Heady sienna prole shrine a Touro JD/MBA opens many doors (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27734402) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 11:20 PM Author: sadistic dark ticket booth Not Touro, but one of St. Johns/Hofstra/Fordham/Seton Hall (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27734462) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 11:25 PM Author: Nofapping liquid oxygen casino I know one. He went into big consulting and spun off a private equity firm out of it. Later he became the Governor of a northeastern state and lost the presidency to a nigger, faggot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27734494) |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 11:55 PM Author: fishy brunch indirect expression (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27734631) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2015 12:03 AM Author: Thriller half-breed T10 bro. Athletic and personable though i suspect is a closet homofag. Works in biglaw. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27734670) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2015 12:03 AM Author: zombie-like wonderful stage yeah he works in consulting now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27734677) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2015 12:08 AM Author: curious chestnut church building gunner Do you think any of the success of these people is due to the JD/MBA, or to the fact that they are strivers, who happen to be more likely to get another degree for its own sake? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27734712) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2015 12:18 AM Author: Mauve resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27734794) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2015 11:17 PM Author: Heady sienna prole shrine i'll try to say something helpful here.
past a certain ranking, if you've been vetted by the law and mba program, you're going to be successful and there's not really any two ways about it.
i'm not sure exactly where that line is, but it does include harvard and does not include, for example, UVA + Darden. (i'm sure many UVA JD/MBAs are successful, but it's not a fait accompli)
a lot of the success isn't remarkable compared to the one degree cohort though, v5 isn't unusual for a HLS or CLS JD, start up or VC isn't unusual for a GSB MBA, etc. once you're in the profiles of the people with really unique outcomes it's a serious chicken/egg scenario trying to separate the factors that got them into the JD/MBA class versus any JD/MBA "boost" for interviewing.
the JD/MBA route is useful for the following things in roughly the following order most useful to least:
1) increasing your cost of attendance by some multiple between 1.5 and 2.0.
2) getting a slight boost on admission into one program or the other where you're a marginal candidate. (the prototypical example around here is JD types getting some leeway on the MBA work experience but it does apply to 3.7/690/IB/MBB backgrounds getting into HBS whose numbers might be a little too soft for HLS by itself.
3) getting an extra year to intern and try out career options.
4) having a good network
5) getting a "boost" into an elite job compared to the hypothetical you who's only enrolled in one program.
there's definitely some good that can come from it but i tend to view much of the JD/MBA talk on here as nostalgic armchair quarterbacking of failed lives--people who start a thread one day talking about how worthless and stupid a JD is (omg moving commas around!) and the next are waxing on about how a northwestern JD/MBA would have been "sooo cr" |
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Date: April 22nd, 2015 12:29 AM Author: Mauve resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27734840) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2015 10:50 AM Author: sadistic dark ticket booth I doubt him ending up with 50+ million in the bank had much to do with him having a JD/MBA. He probably would have ended up with that kind of coin with the JD or MBA alone. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27736371) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2015 11:24 AM Author: Mauve resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27736573) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2015 2:13 PM Author: burgundy field karate at one of uva/michigan/duke/unc seemed like it was all 1ls who realized they couldn't stomach law and wanted to try to get business jobs. seems like they all ended up in law (seemed to do pretty well in oci for what thats worth) but one who ended up in a shitty finance job. doesn't seem worth it at all unless youre at penn or harvard stanford or the like, but those schools will actually uphold mba admissions requirements for the law students. the aforementioned schools dont really seem to do that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27737544) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2015 3:37 PM Author: talented garrison (tarheel). Also correct. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27737942) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2015 3:40 PM Author: Mauve resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27737963) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2015 3:40 PM Author: talented garrison The handful from my LS section who did it jointly are in law and have had indistinguishable paths from the rest of us.
One dude who did MBA after was RE finance -> JD -> RE biglaw -> RE dev -> M7 ->RE dev. I don't know how legit or how well he's doing. Had family money so likely doesn't matter. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2015 8:29 PM Author: Mauve resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27739852) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2015 7:49 PM Author: ultramarine corner i know a guy who went HYP -> successful startup -> top JD/MBA -> V5 and is still there. seems like a waste of time and money but at the time he graduated (mid 2000s) a lot of the JD/MBA people were going to law firms. i'd imagine most of them go into business now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2860373&forum_id=2#27739680) |